Title
Low-Cost Distributed Key Management
Abstract
Key management is one of the biggest challenges in cryptography. Traditionally, organizations stored cryptographic keys using file-based storage, which is insecure due to the lack of sufficient authentication. To overcome this issue, industry has moved towards using Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) for storing cryptographic keys. However, storing keys on HSMs does not ensure high availability if they fail due to network outages or lack of sufficient resources. Major cloud offerings provide high-availability key management solutions, but their cost may be prohibitively high for small-and mid-sized organizations. In this paper, we propose a system that combines distributed object storage with Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs) to ensure secure storage of keys, high availability of sensitive data, and ease of deployment. We envision this system as an attractive alternative for key management in private and public cloud settings.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/SERVICES.2018.00042
2018 IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cryptography,Key Management,Distributed Object Store,Hardware Security Modules,Trusted Platform Modules,High Availability
Key management,Authentication,Hardware security module,Computer security,Computer science,Trusted Platform Module,Distributed database,High availability,Key (cryptography),Database,Cloud computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2378-3818
978-1-5386-7375-1
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Venkatesh Gopal100.34
Shikha Fadnavis200.34
Joel Coffman3324.44